Sentences with phrase «understand black culture»

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Miseducation, poor self - esteem and the failure of black Christians to understand and appreciate their own history and culture is a real problem in black churches.

The crisis of black liberalism and the emergence of the new black conservatives can best be understood in light of three fundamental events in American society and culture since 1973: the eclipse of U.S. economic and military predominance in the world; the structural transformation of the American economy; and the moral breakdown of communities throughout the country, especially among the black working poor and underclass.

Walker situates her understanding of a womanist in the context of nonbourgeois black folk culture.

Erstwhile governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has explained why Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka recently launched verbal attack on him over the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding.

«While the precise implications of the CI eruption for cultures and livelihoods are best understood in the context of archaeological data sets,» write Black and colleagues, the results of their study quantitatively describe the magnitude and distribution of the volcanic cooling and acid deposition that ancient hominin communities experienced coincident with the final decline of the Neanderthals.

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You're looking for someone who understands you, your culture, and frankly, you might just find black people more attractive.

Many black singles are looking for a partner who shares an intrinsic understanding of their culture and heritage.

He also spoke eloquently on how the image of the tragic black hero, or the flawless black hero, reflects the culture's problem with processing a marginal community as just a group of human beings, and why he didn't want the characters, white and black, in his film to be easily categorized or glibly understood.

Ms. Sanford's contributions to the advancement of arts education, culture, and cultural understanding have been recognized by numerous nonprofit organizations, including the North Carolina Arts Education Association, Americans for the Arts, National Black Arts Festival, the National Association of Counties, and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

They are presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee of the ALA's Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) to encourage the artistic expression of the African - American experience via literature and the graphic arts; to promote an understanding and appreciation of the black culture and experience and to commemorate the life and legacy of Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination in supporting the work of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for peace and world brotherhood.

«That was an important moment for me in understanding the transcendence of Black American culture and the power of art in aiding critical dialogues about the constructs of identity and race,» says Christovale of the trip.

«You do not understand America without Black America,» said Paul Gardullo, Curator of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., in 2016 in the columns of New York Times.

For noted art historian and author James A. Porter, Charles White was one of the great interpreters of the history and culture of black Americans: «Charles is an artist steeped in life; and his informed artistic vision conduces to an understanding of vivid pictorial symbols which, through large as life itself, are altogether free or false or distorted ideas or shallow and dubious emotion.»

Anchored by recent gifts from Gund Gallery Board Member David Horvitz «74 and his wife Francie Bishop Good to the Gund Gallery Collection, this Gund Associate (intern)- curated exhibition offers a gendered lens through which to view 20th century civil rights activism so that we may better understand the roots and the aspirations of the political consciousness generated by Black liberation art, ephemera and digital culture today.

Hank's interest in commodity culture and identity through multiple perspectives shows viewers how images / objects can diverge from common understandings of Black life in the Western tradition.